Jamce - Sinji vrh (west path)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Ajdovščina, and then we continue driving towards Col. After a short ascent, Ajdovščina ends, and further we ascend diagonally on the road which rises above the Vipava Valley. About 50 meters before the road sign 5 km, we will notice a suitable place on the right side of the road where we can park.
B) From Godovič or Kalc pri Logatcu we drive to Col, and from there we continue driving towards Ajdovščina. At the road sign 5 km the described footpath starts, and we park about 50 meters ahead on a suitable place on the opposite side of the road.

Path description:
At the road sign 5 km we notice the beginning of the cart track which branches off from the main road uphill. The path first runs along the cart track, then before a small torrent brook a forest path branches off to the right, which after a few steps turns left and crosses the already mentioned drying-up spring. On the other side the path ascends somewhat more steeply, and from the left a somewhat wider path joins us. We continue slightly to the right along the path which quickly takes us out of the forest onto a somewhat larger clearing, where the path partly disappears. Across the clearing we continue straight uphill, then, when the path returns to the forest, it becomes easy to follow again and clearly visible. In the forest the path turns slightly left and returns to the cart track, along which in a few minutes we reach the place where we join another, slightly better trodden cart track, where yet another path from the main road Ajdovščina - Col joins us.
We continue straight, then on a smaller flat area slightly right onto a gently ascending cart track, from which we soon turn right onto a gradually steeper path (at this junction we can also continue straight along the less steep path). A few minutes of steeper path follow, then we join the marked path from Ajdovščina.
We continue right, at the nearby marked junction again right in the direction of Podrta gora. Ahead the path ascends in a few hairpins to the cliffs of Podrta gora, where it turns right, then brings us with nice views of the Vipava Valley to the logbook box and stamp of Podrta gora.
From the logbook box we continue along the marked path, which takes us into a small valley and to the nearby marked junction, where we continue left in the direction of the path along the Edge (right Kovk along the path along the Edge). We continue along the edge of the plateau on or along the ridge of Podrta gora. From the highest point of Podrta gora a short descent follows and the path takes us into a small valley, where at a poorly marked junction is the next logbook box, attached near the plague monument.
Before the monument we continue right (straight marked path along the edge, also Sinji vrh via Črne stene) in the direction of Sinji vrh, then immediately behind the monument left onto a trodden but further unmarked path. A short gentle transverse descent follows, then we reach a somewhat larger meadow where the path disappears. Across the meadow we continue transversely to the right, where we soon reach an abandoned house. Just before the house we cross the road, but we continue to the yard of the house, thus bypassing the house on the right side. Behind the house we step onto the road along which we continue the path, which begins to turn left. After a few minutes we reach a wider macadam road along which runs the marked path via Angelska gora, which we follow left (right Sinji vrh - eastern path).
We continue the path along the macadam road, which continues through the grassy valley. After a few minutes of further walking we reach a smaller junction, where we continue right (the left road ends at a house a few minutes away) onto a somewhat worse forest road. Immediately behind the junction a branch of the path via Angelska gora branches off left, but we continue along the road beside which there are still markings for the path via Angelska gora. The gently ascending road enters the forest and soon takes us to a small junction, where a worse road branches off right. Here we continue straight or slightly left, then behind the beech tree on which we notice No. 33, we continue slightly right onto a worse road which after a few meters of descent ends. At the place where the road ends or turns into a cart track, we continue straight onto the path which temporarily ascends somewhat more steeply. The path soon turns somewhat left, then after a short transverse ascent widens into a cart track which takes us to the memorial plaque and a small hut. We bypass the hut on the right side, and along the ever-widening cart track in a few minutes we reach an asphalt road where we join the marked path.
We follow the road right, past a bench with table we reach a junction where we continue right in the direction of Sinji vrh (if we continue left we reach the main road Col - Predmeja). A somewhat steeper ascent follows and the road past a residential house and higher a left serpentine takes us to the pension Sinji vrh where the road ends. At the pension there is the SPP stamp, and in front of the pension we continue right onto the footpath along which in about 3 minutes of further walking we ascend to the panoramic Sinji vrh.
The description and pictures refer to the condition in 2015 (April).

On the way: Podrta gora nad Ajdovščino (827m)